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One wonders how Star Wars pt 24 will be received!
And I can't believe they shaved Chewie at the end! So that's who Daniel Craig was playing!
And Luke was actually Leia's twin SISTER this whole time?? That sheds so much light on the original trilogy now!
...sigh. Actually I can't see it till Tuesday :(
I loved it, too.
And you could tell it was him by the way he was moving around in the room.
I saw the german dubbed version, and he even got his James Bond voice actor. So that's clearly him. And that scene is funny as hell.
That was Star Wars Episode VI: A New Hope
And that was what I saw today when watching Star Wars Episode VII.
Quite. When The Empire Strikes Back came out it was labelled as Star Wars 2, but the title on the screen said "Episode V". I was wondering what I had been missing?
when you saw Star Wars in 77 it just said 'Star Wars' but when you saw Empire Strikes Back in 80, all of a sudden it says Episode V in the opening titles?
I bet that was confusing!
I have very mixed feelings about the film,
Its really enjoyable. In parts amazing. The first hour is great. For me its overly self-referential, with a few leaps of logic and rather rushed in places, but the bits that work really do work. Its like the Original trilogy concentrated into 1 film. Whether thats good depends on how much you like easter eggs and not being challenged in the cinema.
It felt like a pair of comfortable slippers. JJ Abrahams has probably done better than expected in, if nothing else, re establishing what made star wars entertaining in the first place. Clue, it wasn't characters talking walking slowly down CGI corridors endlessly.
The 4 new leads are all very good characters though. And Kylo Ren is a very interesting conflicted bad guy. Whereas Darth maul was a scary faced 101 bad guy.
4/5
It was, and it was much later that I learned the reason. It was planned as three trilogies from the start, but the film company wanted to test the waters with what was meant to be ep. 4 first, as it had the most commercial appeal.
When the success was a fact, the series was greenlit.
, since that was when it looked like they would be making more movies.
It seems like an eternity before I see TFA on Tuesday- Facebook and the internet in general is like a minefield!
I understand why "original" fans are still calling that film "Star Wars", but it's definitely "Episode IV" to me.
It's interesting to note, that even if SW7 makes a ton of money, it still will be no where near the galactic gross of the original SW film.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-16/force-awakens-can-t-hope-to-match-box-office-of-original-star-wars
It´s true that a lot of old story and stuff is in there, but it´s so well-told that it felt more like a working formula than a re-hash or re-boot. I´d take this kind of excitement, however unoriginal it might be (actually it isn´t that unoriginal), any day over the much more original yet lame prequels.
I noticed some hommages to old SW films, and I´m sure there are lots more in the film, but I saw nothing that came across as clunky or forced (no pun intended), it all was very slick humor or almost unnoticable, and the big ones (like the remnants of star destroyers lying in the desert, which everyone saw in the trailers) make a lot of sense, given their history.
The way old characters (including the Falcon) are introduced is amazingly flowing, nothing cheesy there, I didn´t even mind the re-appearance of two droids.
Adam Driver was very good. Domnhall Gleeson´s war speech is epic, amazingly well-done, totally over the top, yet not ridiculous at all.
BB-8 is cutest Disney cute, but Daisy Ridley, wow, I´m so in love with her, she´s absolutely worth building a series of films on.
J.J. is obviously growing. I found his ST films cool but a little annoying here and there. This however is a whole different league. Perhaps it´s more due to John Williams than Abrams, but I´ll happily research that deeper in the next few viewings.
I was a bit confused today. True, I went to an afternoon screening, but still, there were not more than ten people in the cinema. Before going, I wasn´t even sure I´d get a ticket on the first day.